After a change of direction they reestablish the responsive halts, not worrying about making them perfect. The horse has to stand after each halt until asked to move forward. He offers prompt canter departs, and they stay on the circle. They return to the walk on a small circle, and Ulf works with them on the rhythm and the stretch. The horse finds it easier to the right, so he has them go right first to establish the stretch and then figure eight to the left.
Up Next in Stretching
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Proper Contact | Christoph Hess | PAR...
German master Christoph Hess helps this rider whose horse is severely behind the vertical and ducking behind the bridal. He has the rider use a very long rein with lite contact encouraging the horse to push his nose out to the bit the entire time. Improvement can be seen at the end of this first ...
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Proper Contact | Christoph Hess | PAR...
In Part 2, Christoph focuses on canter transitions, where the horse is notoriously tense and bucky into the transitions. They work for a long time to relax the horse before they can think about moving into something else.
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Proper Contact | Christoph Hess | PAR...
Next, Christoph helps the rider ensure that the half pass work and canter stays free and true, and not be given up for the sake of the movement. They move on to piaffe/passage work.
